Punjab DGP reviews security, law & order in wake of Dhariwal firing incident
Chandigarh/UNI: Taking stock of the situation in the wake of Monday’s firing incident at Dhariwal in Gurdaspur district, Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta on Tuesday reviewed the security and law and order in the state.
During a video conference with all IG Ranges, Commissioners of Police and Senior Superintendents of Police, Gupta deliberated upon various security-related inputs and issues and ordered scaling up of high visibility policing, area domination operations, checking of suspicious vehicles, deployment and patrolling plans of districts, placement of PCR, Rural Rapid Police Response (RRPRS) vehicles and other patrol vehicles.
The DGP also discussed other security measures to check and monitor movement and activities of those arrested in the past for heinous crimes, especially those arrested in NDPS, UAPA, Arms Act cases, besides maintaining law and order during protests/demonstrations relating to CAA/NRC/NPR planned to be held in Malerkotla, Ludhiana and Mansa.
He also directed the Commissioners of Police and Senior Superintendents of Police to execute a comprehensive manpower audit to pull out police personnel from non-essential duties and deploy them on operational duties for enhancing efficiency in the day to day functioning of police.
He also asked them to extract data from various Police databases, such as CCTNS, SAANJH, PAIS etc. for quick and prompt prevention and detection of crime.
Meanwhile, ADGP internal security R N Dhoke, accompanied by Gurdaspur SSP Swarandeep Singh AIG (CI) Ketan Patil and AIG (SSOC) Sukhminder Mann, visited Dhariwal to inspect the crime spot, where two unidentified persons had opened fire at Ashok Kumar and Honey Mahajan around 7 PM on Monday.
Later, Dhoke also held meetings with IGP Border and other SSPs of the border districts in Amritsar, where he reviewed the status of investigations into the attack in the Dhariwal incident as well as the ongoing CT operations.
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